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CLIMATE VOTERS SPURNED, BURNED
Local sorryists planned to get themselves some Google coverage recently. Didn’t happen:
A plane chartered by Google either never made it over some of the designated areas or arrived hours after it was scheduled to pass overhead - by which time, many of those who had been waiting below had packed up and moved on ...
On Bondi Beach, where Google informed people to be ready between 9am and 9.30am, Mithra Cox from the Nature Conservation Council of NSW was with a group of about 200 supporters of the environmental organisation, who had lain down in the sand to form the words: “Vote Climate”.
The group started assembling at the southern end of Bondi Beach from 8am and at one stage saw the plane “fly peripherally” past the beach.
Then Gaia turned on them:
“We ended up disbanding at about 10.15am,” said Ms Cox, “because some of us were getting really sunburnt.”
Sorry.
(Via Cuckoo and several other giggling readers)
Would have been nice to be on hand to give the twits a big RWDB smirk and nice big sunburn slap on the back.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 01 29 at 04:21 PM • permalinkThere’s only one person who needs to say sorry
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 29 at 05:06 PM • permalinkOkay, when I saw that Google had encouraged them to do that, I thought it meant specifically encouraging the stupid “Sorry” message. (Which would explain this.) But they were just encouraging people to show up in general. Still, it’s not like anybody at Google would have disagreed.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 29 at 07:05 PM • permalinkThis is another one of those exercises drawn from that bible of dissent, the Protesters Handbook.
Protest Guideline 12 says:Gathering in large numbers and adopting bizarre poses is sure-fire way of getting your message on TV. Try forming words with naked bodies. TV station helicopters will orbit the site all day so that they can air pictures of full-frontal nudity but some viewers will read your message and be won over to the cause. WARNING: Make sure you tell the TV stations you will be staging a nude protest. Waiting vainly in the hope that a helicopter might pass over is both futile and dangerous, with risks of skin cancer or frost bite, depending on the climate.
They should have read to the end.
From the article:
Among those missing out on the photo opportunity of a lifetime was Sydney software consultant Adam Cogan.
He had spent $10,000 on a 50-metre sign featuring his company’s logo and website address and had organised 30 of his employees to come along to Queens Park in Waverley on Friday morning and help assemble the installation.
Google advised those at Queens Park to be ready around 8.45am-9.15am. Mr Cogan waited at Queens Park for the flyover until about 4.30pm before giving up.
“Google have over-promised and under-delivered,” Mr Cogan said. “They should have sorted this out before creating the expectation.”
What a whining little bitch. I am willing to bet he has never paid Google a cent, for any form of advertising in the past, yet feels they owe him anything.
I love the smell of scorched moonbats in the morning.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 29 at 08:41 PM • permalink#18 - Do they have figures for how many people are “won over to the cause?” In the entire history of, uh, well, history itself, has naybody ever changed a deeply held opinion due to seeing a gaggle of nude protestors spelling out a message with their bodies?
I mean, change to an opinion favorable to the gaggle, that is? Because is I had no opinion previously, I sure would have one now and these people wouildn’t like it.
What’s the title of the chapter the quoted passage is in? “Act like an idiot and affect people’s view of your cause?” Somewhat anbiguous, but maybe I’m not their target demographic.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 29 at 08:48 PM • permalink#22 Even more idiotic, is that he wanted to take advantage of free advertising by spending $10,000 on it…..
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 29 at 09:34 PM • permalinkBTW, I hope Air Services Australia checked that the plane wasn’t carrying any Indonesian tanks.
Can’t be too careful.Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 29 at 09:36 PM • permalink#23 #24
has anybody ever changed a deeply held opinion due to seeing a gaggle of nude protestors spelling out a message with their bodies?That is a really stupid suggestion.
Giant duck puppets, however, are another matter
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 29 at 11:02 PM • permalink“We ended up disbanding at about 10.15am,” said Ms Cox, “because some of us were getting really sunburnt.”
You have to admire the grit and determination of these moonbats. Is there no level of suffering these iron men/women won’t endure in their noble quest to save the planet?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 01 29 at 11:17 PM • permalink#23
The Protesters Handbook was a ficticious publication I once used in a newspaper column to lampoon the predictable and narrow nature of protests. Interestingly, one of the town’s Marxists, a bookshop owner, defended the right of protesters to gather helpful information on how to get their message across. That I said the Protesters Handbook could be found on the shelves next to “At Sea with the Greenpeace Cruising Yacht Club” shows that Marxists, if nothing else, are dumb. Wonder if she tried to order it?#28 Jack, my first gander at a Playboy at about age 14 changed my opinion about some things. Does that count?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 01 29 at 11:46 PM • permalink#30 - You’re missing a bet if you don’t fill out the manuscript and send it to a publisher. It’s stupid enough that it’ll become the Bible of the Giant Papier Mache Head set.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 30 at 12:02 AM • permalinkWe still haven’t been able to get to the bottom of how another aircraft - chartered by Microsoft - got permission to fly over Centennial Park and take the photos for the Look Up and Smile promotion at roughly the same time that the Google plane was being kept out.
Ok, this has ‘cover-up’ written all over it. My theory is that yes indeed, the Google plane was carrying advance elements of an Indonesian armoured invasion force into Sydney and the top brass in Canberra got wind of it, hence the plane had to bug out before they scrambled the F-18’s.
I’m going to lunch tomorrow with eight Generals and a Field Marshall, I’m hoping they will confirm my theory
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 30 at 12:16 AM • permalink“We ended up disbanding at about 10.15am,” said Ms Cox, “because some of us were getting really sunburnt.”
Nothing worse than sunburnt Cox.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 12:51 AM • permalink“I’m going to lunch tomorrow with eight Generals and a Field Marshall, I’m hoping they will confirm my theory”
Why bother waiting for lunch tomorrow. Or “hoping” that they confirm it. You can just write about it now like it’s already happened and you can tell everyone the generals confirmed all your beliefs. They don’t actually have to say it for you to attribute it to them. Don’t you know how these things work?
Jeez, that’s the last time I stay up all night making a “Suck my nuts” poster.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 30 at 01:33 AM • permalink#34 - thanks, AS, I knew there was a joke about suburn and Cox somewhere in there.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 30 at 01:49 AM • permalink
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200 moonbats, lying in the sand, dead still, to spell out words, for over two hours.
Wasting their time, even incurring harm to their bodies.
For no benefit whatsover.
Isn’t that pretty much what the Kyoto Protocol is all about?